Hi Mary Beth Sounds like you are doing a lot better than I on my Klingenmunster search. I've gotten off on Belum now for another g-father. Doing all at one time is confusing. Question - where did you find Clever Maids? Marge Kroehler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Beth Michaels" <50below@pobox.mtaonline.net> To: "PFALZ@rootsweb.com" <PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 8:06 PM Subject: [Pfalz] fun book I am reading >I have started an interesting book, "Clever Maids, The Secret History of >The > Grimm Fairy Tales," by Valerie Paradiz. > > Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm did not live in the Pfalz, but the first three > chapters at least, have given me some new insights into German history. > And > they lived in a part of Germany that was west of the Rhein (Hesse), so it, > like the Pfalz, was taken over by Napoleon; and some of the experiences in > the two places would have been similar. Also the author writes about the > experiences of women, who were the story tellers, which is not always easy > to find in history books, and half of our ancestors were indeed women. > > The book is an easy read, and has the added virtue of being short. I am > enjoying it very much, and I thought some of you might be too. > > Marybeth Michaels > > > > ********* > Information for list members: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/PFALZ.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe ralphkroehler@prodigy.net from the list, please send an > email to PFALZ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >